DKTV (partially found promotional Donkey Kong 64 material from defunct Nintendo website; 2000-2001)

Logo for the microsite.

Status: Partially Found

This article has been tagged as Needing work due to its lack or no information whatsoever on other DKTV shows listed in this article (with the exception of The DK Gorilla Project).

DKTV was a microsite made by creative agency experiencepop^[1] and published by Nintendo to help promote the release of the game Donkey Kong 64 by RareWare (now known as Rare Limited).

It featured many promotional materials such as web-series, flash animations and games, however, since the website's shut down, outside of the flash games, the majority of the content from the microsite is now completely lost.

List Of Material

The DK Gorilla Project^[2]

#	Episode Title	Status
1	Hitting The Road	Lost
2	Are We There Yet?	Lost
3	Off The Map	Lost
4	Whimpering	Lost
5	Waking Up To Terror	Lost
6	Answers in the Basement	Lost

Premise

The web-series is a spoof of the horror film The Blair Witch Project about a group of friends lost in the woods with VHS cameras investigating a mystery, except instead of trying to find the Blair Witch they are trying to find Donkey Kong.

A testimony from gamefaqs.com^[3] recalls a few moments from the series, such as what can be described as the crew reacting to a pile of bananas they found on the ground and other clues that lead them to a cabin where they play DK64 in the end.

DK64 Beatdown^[4]

A newscast-like series about the main playable characters.

#	Episode Title	Status
1	Donkey Kong	Lost
2	Diddy Kong	Lost
3	Tiny Kong	Lost
4	Lanky Kong	Lost
5	Chunky Kong	Lost

Buy! Buy! Buy!^[5]

Videos about promotional content around Donkey Kong 64.

#	Episode Title	Status
1	DK 64 Bundle	Lost
2	DK 64 Jungle Pak	Lost
3	DK 64 Player's Guide	Lost

The Games Channel^[6]

Simple flash games, with Donkey Konk and Kremling Krunch being whack-a-mole like games^[7] ^[8] and the last one being a huge lore quiz on Donkey kong 64. ^[9]

All of these games have been archived on Flashpoint Bluemaxima, a massive archive for flash games and animations.

#	Game Title	Status
1	Donkey Konk	Found
2	Kremling Krunch	Found
3	DK 64 Lore Quiz	Found

DK Island's Most Wanted^[10]

A parody of "America's most wanted " about the main bosses.

#	Episode Title	Status
1	King K. Rool	Lost
2	Army Dillo	Lost
3	Dogadon	Lost
4	Mad Jack	Lost
5	Puftoss	Lost
6	King Kut Out	Lost

The Real Jungle^[11]

A sitcom like series, not much is known.

#	Episode Title	Status
1	Earning a Living	Lost
2	Episode 2	Lost
3	Trouble At Home	Lost
4	Episode 4	Lost
5	The Big Date	Lost

National Kongagraphic^[12]

A parody of "National Geographic" about the main levels of the game.

#	Episode Title	Status
1	Jungle Japes	Lost
2	Angry Aztec	Lost
3	Frantic Factory	Lost
4	Gloomy Galleon	Lost
5	Fungi Forest	Lost
6	Crystal Caves	Lost
7	Creepy Castle	Lost

Monkey Mail^[13]

Flash animations you could e-mail them to friends with a customizable message.

#	Animation Title	Status
1	Donkey Kong	Lost
2	Diddy Kong	Lost
3	Tiny Kong	Lost
4	Lanky Kong	Lost
5	Chunky Kong	Lost

DK Rap Attack^[14]

A rap contest where people could submit their versions of the DK rap, as of December 2023, only one of them has been found.

#	Episode Title	Status
1	Runner Up 1	Lost
2	Runner Up 2	Lost
3	Runner Up 3	Lost
4	Runner Up 4	Lost
5	Runner Up 5	Lost
6	Grand Prize Winner	Found

Availability

As aformentioned, most of the material from the microsite has gone unarchived, with the grand prize winner of the DK Rap Attack being the only video material that has resurfaced.

The original link to the experiencepop website has since gone down and is no longer available. However, the company is still around under a new name: POP.^[15] Although, in their website, they don't mention any collaboration with Nintendo or any of their past projects, whether or not they still have the promotional material for the microsite is currently unknown.